Sliding-door hanger



(No Model.)

P.. M. WILSON. SLIDING DOOR HANGER.

Pateited Dec. 13, 1887.

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ROBERT M. WILSON, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SLIDING-DOOR HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,859, dated December 13.1887.

Application tiled June 9, 1887 To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Sliding-Door Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to doors made to open by sliding laterally into a `recess or hollow space in the wall or partition; and it consists in a device for supporting the door and permitting a free lateral motion.

The objects of my invention are, first, to so support the door as to hold it perpendicular and avoid binding or friction; second, to cause it to accommodate itself to any settling of the house, and, third, to open and shut freely and without noise. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a vertical and lateral View of the entire device with the face of the wall removed. Fig. 2 is an edge View showing the studding ofthe wall and the manner ot' attaching the device thereto, and the space between the studding occupied by the door. a rear edge view of the door and operating mechanism, with one piece of the studding removed. Fig. 4 illustrates the shape and con-` struction of the plate F.

Similar letters referto si milar parts throughout the several views.

S represents the studding, and A the door. C C denote brackets rigidly secured tO one of the pieces ot studding S, extending inwardly and parallel with the face of the door and upon'which the door is suspended. Upon the brackets C, at the points :v x, are pivoted two levers, B B, the forward ends ot' said levers having cog-heads which mesh with each other. To said levers B B are pivoted, at the points y y, two arms, E E, which extend and are pivoted by their other ends at z z to a plat-e, D, which is firmly secured to the edge of the door at or nearthe middle. The levers B B are 45 each at their outer ends attached to a button or slide, G, made to slide perpendicularly in corresponding slots in the two plates F F, which plates are bent at right angles, as shown in Fig. 4, andare iirmly secured to the edge 5o of the door, near the top and bottom of the door, respectively.

The dotted lines in Fig. l show the position of the several parts when the door is open or 'pushed back into its recess. 5 5

By this mechanism I support the door in a perpendicular position and obtain for it an easy lateral motion. The support of the door` being upon the studding, any settling of the house, so long as the stud remains perpen- 6o dicular, will not affecty the free opening and shutting of the door.

The door may be steadied at the top or'bottom, or both, with guides A', as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.`

What I claim as my invention, anddcsire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.` In a sliding-door hanger, the combination of the pivoted cog-levers, slotted plates in which the free ends of said levers slide, 7c

arms pivotally secured to said levers, and a plate to which the free ends of said arms are pivoted.

2. In -a sliding-door hanger, the combination of cog-levers, brackets to which said le- 7 5 vers are pivoted, slotted plates in which the free ends ot' the levers slide, arms pivoted at one of their ends to said levers, and a plate to which the other ends of said arms are pivoted.

ROBERT M. WILSON.

Witnesses:

ADAM G. ROTHFUss, H. G. TROXELL. 

